.forgejo/workflows/desktop.yml

@@ -108,6 +108,29 @@ jobs:
       - name: De-bundle AppImage graphics libraries
         run: bash desktop/packaging/appimage/debundle-graphics.sh
 
+      # MUST run after de-bundling, not before. The step above DELETES the AppImage
+      # and repackages it, so the signature tauri produced during the build now
+      # describes a file that no longer exists. Publishing that stale .sig would make
+      # every Linux update fail verification — and the error names a signature
+      # mismatch, which points nowhere near "a later build step rewrote the file".
+      # Windows needs no equivalent: nothing post-processes the NSIS installer.
+      - name: Re-sign the de-bundled AppImage
+        env:
+          TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY: ${{ secrets.TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY }}
+          TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY_PASSWORD }}
+        run: |
+          if [ -z "${TAURI_SIGNING_PRIVATE_KEY:-}" ]; then
+            echo "No signing key — the build produced no signature to replace."
+            exit 0
+          fi
+          appimage="$(find target/release/bundle/appimage -name '*.AppImage' -type f | head -1)"
+          [ -n "$appimage" ] || { echo "ERROR: no AppImage found to re-sign" >&2; exit 1; }
+          rm -f "$appimage.sig"
+          cargo tauri signer sign "$appimage"
+          [ -s "$appimage.sig" ] || { echo "ERROR: re-signing produced no .sig" >&2; exit 1; }
+          echo "Re-signed $(basename "$appimage")"
+        working-directory: desktop/src-tauri
+
       # install.sh hands the .deb to every Debian/Ubuntu user, so the package's
       # Depends must be right BEFORE a release exists. Prints the generated
       # control file and cross-checks it against what the ELF actually needs